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Beacool

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27. The hot dog party was for the British King and Queen.

Reply to Walk away (Reply #25)

Mon Jan 28, 2013, 05:44 PM

Jan 2013

I read that the King went with the flow, but that the Queen was not too enthused about the "weird" food.

Did she ever mention how the Roosevelts were in private life? Were they nice to her?

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